Short story : a thematic anthology / edited by Dorothy Parker [and] Frederick B. Shroyer.

Author: Parker, Dorothy, 1893-1967, ed.

Imprint:New York : Scribner, [1965]

Descriptionxii, 462 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:I.THEME AND EXPERIENCE: YOUTH: A logding for the night / Robert Louis Stevenson. - Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson. - Youth / Joseph Conrad. -- CRUELTY: The doll's house / Katherine Mansfield. - The fastest runner on Sixty-First Street / James T. Farrell. - Life for a life / Alan Paton. -- LOVE: The boarding house / James Joyce. - Petrified man / Eudora Welty. - The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck. - Look at all those roses / Elizabeth Bowen. - The blind man / D.H. Lawrence. - Disorder and early sorrow / Thomas Mann. -- LONELINESS: The jockey / Carson McCullers. - Color of darkness / James Purdy. - The darling / Anton pavlovich Chekhov. - Brooksmith / Henry James. -- DEATH: A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor. - Indian camp / Ernest Hemingway. - The beggar on the Dublin bridge / Ray Bradbury. - May day / F. Scott Fitzgerald. - The gentleman from San Francisco / Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin. -- II.THEME AND IMAGINATION: HUMOR: The catbird seat / James Thurber. - Some like them cold / Ring Lardner. - The story-teller / Saki (H.H. Munro) - The chaser / John Collier. - The treasure / W. Somerset Maugham. - A.V. Laider / max Beerbohm. -- FANTASY: The lady's miad's bell / Edith Wharton. - Adventure of the German student / Washington Irving. - The specialty of the house / Stanley Ellin. - On the river / Guy de Maupassant. - The facts in the case of M. Valdemar / Edgar Allan Poe. - An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce. -- SYMBOL: The lottery / Shirley Jackson. - The celestial omnibus / E.M. Forster. - In the penal colony / Franz Kafka. - Among the dangs / George P. Elliott. - A mother's tale / James Agee.

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